[pct-l] Dehydrating Food

[steve_peterson at sbcglobal.net (Steve Peterson)]

I don't know that it's *all* you've been missing, but it might have been 
*something* you were missing :-)

--Steve

Jon Bellmore wrote:
> So that's what I've been missing while on all those long walks.
> 
> Steve Peterson <steve_peterson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:One thing I would mention here is that mashing everything up makes for efficient 
> packing and rehydration (and I do a lot of mashing myself), but it *kills* the 
> variety of texture that many (most? all?) people eventually miss after a while 
> on the trail.
> 
> Professional chefs give a lot of thought to how food feels in the mouth and 
> I've found that variety of texture (crunchy, chewey, rough, smooth, etc.) is 
> important to me on longer hikes--an unexpected finding. I suspect what many 
> hikers miss by the time they get to town is a change in texture of the food as 
> much as the calories and nutrients.
>